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Hello to all.  I have been on the list for several weeks now and have
already put a query out (about DE), but I guess the formal intro I never
made is in order. 

I recently visited a web site mentioned here that tells you what
hardiness zone you are in based on your zip code.  It said I am in zone
6, but I wonder.  My crocuses just started coming up in the past week
and my asparagus is just starting to poke up its first spears.  I always
thought I was in zone 5 or 6, but now that I have some form of
confirmation that I am in zone 6, I can't help but think I am really in
zone 5.  Anyone with thoughts on the subject, please respond.

I live in the Hudson Valley in Upstate New York and have been gardening
my backyard plot using organic methods for the past 3 seasons.  Mel's
was one of the first gardening books I got my hands on, so that square
foot gardening methods have been the basis for most things I have done
in my garden.  The first thing I did when I moved onto my house in late
October 3 1/2 years ago was to map out the garden and start my compost
pile.  

My father used to garden about 1/2 acre of the 7 acre property I grew up
on, which was also in this area of the state.  I guess I got the bug
from him at a very early age.  
I have carried on the tradition in a rather ambitious fashion. (I
currently have over 400 seedlings in my basement under lights in a unit
my husband built.  Where I will fit them all, I do not know.)  
I look forward every morning to reading the e-mails sent since last
check of the mailbox, almost as much as going out to the garden and
seeing what has popped up overnight.  I have gotten some very good tips,
and some I am not so sure about, but it is great to see a forum like
this and I am glad to have found it.
To Carolyn (care206@aol.com) in particular, I would like to hear what is
happening in your zone 6 Hudson Valley garden, to compare notes, as it
were.

-----Original Message-----
From: Care206@aol.com [C*@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 1999 5:31 PM
To: sqft@listbot.com
Subject: Cool weather crops


Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Hi all

I have been sq ft gardening for two years and am attempting cool weather

crops for the first time this year.  I am going to grow Broccoli, peas, 
carrots and some Romaine lettuce for the tortise.  I know you should
plant 
when "the ground can be worked"... my boxes are finally drying out from
all 
th melting snow and rain. My question is, do these veggies have to be 
protected  (Wall o water or row cover) or can they be left as is? Or am
I 
completely off the mark, and they can only be grown in a cold frame?
Somebody?

Carolyn
New York's Hudson Valley-zone 6


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